I mentioned in my belated intro thread a few months ago that I grew up in Essendon just a few doors down from Precision Mowers.

Anyway, I stumbled across the daughter (Donna) of the founder (Michael Talbot) of Precision Mowers on a local Facebook Group and reached out to her to try and get any pics or information the family may have from the early days - with a little encouragement from CyberJack.

I also pointed Donna to this links from our History section written by Jack.

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/107861/precision-rotamow-c1956.html

https://www.outdoorking-forum.com.au/forum/u...ion-c1950s-a-hybrid-power-sidewheel.html

Thankfully I received the following very positive response;

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Hi Claudio, here are a couple of photos of Precision Mowers, the first from very early days, the second when Dad had purchased the house next door and built new, larger premises. The earlier pic has my 2 brothers out front (maybe mid 1950s), the other shows one brother and other staff members. I’m thinking it’s probably about early/mid 1960s going by the age of my older brother. You can share these and the other pic I sent you, with the website. I’ve spoken to my brother Shane and he was very interested in the information you shared, and like me, surprised to see those fabulous newspaper advertisements. He is going to send through a message on the site identifying himself and offering more information etc. Hope this is helpful, and thank you ... it’s nice to see people are interested in our family’s little bit of history. Cheers Donna

Very much looking forward to Shane joining the group and sharing more with us. And thank you to Donna for sharing.

With permission, I'm attaching the following photos described above along with another photo posted on the Facebook Group with the description "This is my brother and I with one of the mowers Dad made, around 1955". This would be the Precision Rotamow model.

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Last edited by Claude; 19/03/21 08:43 PM.